NoteBook

Notebooks are designed to store large amounts of information (to the limit of your iPad’s flash drive, actually), which begs the question: how do you find a specific note in all of that information?

Most note-taking apps provide simple text searching, but when lots of notes contain the words you’re looking for, simple text search becomes useless. Even worse, what if you can’t recall a word the note contains? Which isn’t unusual, because our brains recall information in many different ways, not just by words. For example you might only recall that you entered the note last Thursday. Given that our brains don’t recall information only by text, our searching systems shouldn’t either.

That’s the idea behind NoteBook’s Multidex™. Each time you add or change a note, NoteBook indexes not only the note’s text, but also all of its attributes, things like when the note was changed, what Keywords you assigned to it, which attachments it contains, and more. This information forms the basis of the Multidex, a set of pages at the back of every Notebook that helps you locate information by what little bit you remember about it.

The Multidex’s Text page, for example, lists all of the words in use in your Notebook. So if you remember that a note contains the word urgent, tap “urgent” on the Text page and see all of the notes that contain it. If you only remember that you added it last Thursday, visit the Creation Dates page to see a list of everything you added on that day. Look for names on the Capitalized Words page. Look for numbers on the Numbers page. And so on. No matter which way you might recall a note, NoteBook has a way for you to find it with just a few taps. It’s so amazing, it’s patented.

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